One Hot CPU pt. II

I realized that I had not done the open case test on my wife's computer, so I found a cute little site that would make her computer overheat quite well. Went there with the computer in one piece and the alarms start, which means the temperatures are around 158 degrees Fahrenheit/70 Celsius. So I turned the machine off and removed the side, as the machine has a fan in the side panel. Sitting in the BIOS, the machine is running a very unhappy 136/58, doing absolutely nothing.

It was time to take a can of compressed air to the computers, having pets is about as bad as smoking around a computer, if not worse. So time to get the dog hair out, and it's a good time to swap CPUs. Illyria, Arabella, time for brain transplants!

Results? My Athlon 64 x2 5000+ runs a maximum of 109/42 under the same conditions that made alarms go off before. Ah ha, I was right! The Athlon 64 x2 3600+ gets too hot under normal circumstances, let alone a heavy load. Right? Right? No. The CPU runs happily in my case with my HSF. While running hotter than my CPU, I haven't managed to get it over 114/45. What are the differences? My case is newer and is running 2 120mm fans while hers has 5 80mm fans, and my HSF has 6 heat pipes and has a greater surface area, and hers only has 4.

So, maybe her CPU would be happy in her computer with my HSF? Guess that will be my next test.